Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!csccat!ncmicro!ltf From: ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org (Lance Franklin) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Shuttle flights? Message-ID: <278@ncmicro.lonestar.org> Date: 29 Jan 91 21:10:13 GMT References: <2492.27A4061F@fidonet.ieee.org> <1991Jan28.164252.15611@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <6703@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Organization: NC Microproducts, Inc. Richardson, Tx Lines: 23 In article <6703@mace.cc.purdue.edu> dil@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Perry G Ramsey) writes: }In article <1991Jan28.164252.15611@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>, pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov (Peter Scott) writes: }> In article <2492.27A4061F@fidonet.ieee.org>, Terry.Steckowich@f540.n107.z1.ieee.org (Terry Steckowich) writes: }> > Or are they 100% sure they can protect the shuttle? }> }> Of course, there will also be increased security due to the current situation. } }The word is that the most effective branch of the KSC security force will }be beefed-up. Alligators are being flown in from all over the South to }provide improved anti-personnel patrols. :) In addition, I've heard rumors of a special contingent of attack pelicans being flown in from Miami. Not to mention the specially trained seagulls that will, upon sighting a stranger, swallow an alka-selzer and divebomb them. Lance -- Lance T. Franklin +----------------------------------------------+ (ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org) | "You want I should bop you with this here | NC Microproducts, Inc. | Lollipop?!?" The Fat Fury | Richardson, Texas +----------------------------------------------+